Umbrello supports MySQL and PostgreSQL export since a long time. With the upcoming umbrello 2.17 release (KDE Applications 15.08) umbrello also gets support for importing MySQL and PostgreSQL schema,
which enables round trip engineering. Many thanks to Ralf Habacker, who added this feature.

In the last weeks the port to KDE frameworks 5 has been merged back into the master branch. Many thanks to Andi Fischer, who ported umbrello to KF5
and Ralf Habacker, who merged back the changes into the master branch.

The merge back has been designed to support KDE4 and KF5 builds from the same source. To create a KF5/Qt5 based build -DBUILD_KF5=1 has to be added
to the cmake command line.

Umbrello has been registered as coverity project, which helps to increase the code quality.

High impact issues from the source code scan has been already fixed by Oliver Kellog, for the remaining detects volunteers are welcome.
If you want to help to improve the code quality of umbrello, please contact Oliver.

Over the past twelve months, 18 developers contributed to Umbrello UML Modeller. This project has a relatively large team, in the top 10% of all project teams on OpenHub.
For this measurement, OpenHub considers only recent changes to the code. Over the entire history of the project, 115 developers have contributed. See the full story here.

Sequence diagram messages could have sequence numbers to indicate the ordering. The dialog for message adding has now a new 'autoincrement' checkbox,
with which an automatically increment of the sequence number could be enabled.

The implementation of Bug 107174, has been started several weeks ago.
Now thanks to the efforts of Andi Fischer and bug fixing by Ralf Habacker step 1 and 2 of the implementation plan has been finished and is merged to git master.

Ralf Habacker adds a graphical indicator to graphical widgets, which has documentation. This feature, which is useful to get a quick overview what is documentated and what not,
is enabled by an entry in the diagram context menu and if enabled, displays a triangle in the lower left corner of the related widget.

Umbrello got a new diagram auto layout feature from Ralf Habacker. It uses graph generators from the
graphviz package which is included in many linux
distributions and is also be available on windows.

The auto layout feature is available through entries of a diagram context menu.
For each diagram type there are multiple layout types available, which are customizable using configuration files.
For an example see Vertical layout for class diagrams.

Several years have gone by while Andi Fischer and Ralf Habacker have been merging the Umbrello GSOC-2008 branch back into trunk.
Ralf today committed
the QGraphicsScene and QGraphicsView changeover of UMLView and UMLScene.
This completes the bulk of the merge. Cheers to Andi and Ralf for their untiring efforts!

Umbrello 2.0 has been released as part of the kdesdk module in KDE 4. Thanks to our contributors Oliver, Sharan, Andi and others for their work on this milestone. Install it from your distro as part of kdesdk.

A university programme to get students working on real code in Free Software programmes has chosen Umbrello as one
of its development projects for one of its teams. The students have set up an Umbrello wiki in French with their plans form working on Umbrello in KDE 4.

KDE-Files.org has launched today as a community website for sharing
templates and example files. It incluedes a category for Umbrello
files. Please upload sample files and any UML diagrams you can spare
so others can learn from your UML techniques.

Umbrello 1.2 is the result of a hard year's work by a dedicated team
of developers. New features include improved code generation in more
languages, undo/redo, a resizeable and zoomable canvas and more
diagram types. It is part of KDE 3.2.

Our Screen Shots page shows the now quite
old Umbrello 1.1. With Umbrello 1.2 due to be released in January
we're now looking for screen shots of the new version. If you are
using a 1.2-beta please take a capture of Umbrello doing something
interesting, put it on a webserver and e-mail to URL to umbrello @
jriddell.org

A recent shapshot of Umbrello from 2003-08-28 is now in Debian
unstable (sid). This date was chosen for the stability of Umbrello at
that time. apt-get install umbrello is now possible. We
hope this will be in the next stable version of Debian (KDE 3.2 is unlikely to be).

It is the aim of Umbrello to encourage developers of Free (and
proprietry) Software to use UML for designing and documenting their
programmes. Our new users page lists some of the users of Umbrello.
If you use or know of users who would like their projects
or organisations here please contact the uml-devel mailing list.